2,365 Quotes About Help

Help is strangely, something we want to do without, as if the very idea disturbs and blurs the boundaries of our individual endeavors, as if we cannot face how much we need in order to go on.

Don't let the ability to do a thing on your own become a liability.

Maybe there’s a book in here that will tell me what to do when all the smart choices feel wrong.

You can't help people like her unless they want to be helped. That's the first law of mental health. You know it, I know it.

At the clinic, they fed us pills like they were biscuits. Those pills made the tongue loose in my head, my left arm numb from the elbow down. Sometimes the world would smoulder at the edges. Patients came and went, people from every kind of background but all with one thing in common: no longer capable of contributing to society, they needed to be kept out of sight: losers, loners, dreamers, freaks; God forbid they ever make it onto a TV screen.

Not every story has to make everybody laugh. Not every story has to make everybody feel fine. That's what real life looks like: full of nuances and nonsense. At one point, we've all been in a metaphorical park, crying about not getting a text back. At others, we've invested in what we assumed would be a life-changing candle. We've all needed help.We've also always been interesting, with or without a diagnosis or a tragedy. I wish I'd known I was always enough.

To help people you must first start with yourself.

Making a difference by extending a helping hand for a social cause is like prestidigitating the magic of highest prestige.

It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.